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Plain English in Cardiff

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Created on Friday, 10 April 2015 16:46

We have a small number of places left on our Thistle Cardiff City Centre plain English course on 24 June. To get £50 off one of the remaining spots, contact Terri on 01663 744409, or email info@plainenglish.co.uk.

For all updates on any other discounts and further course information, check our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Opt-in scam

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Created on Monday, 30 March 2015 09:33

This isn’t the first time we’ve mentioned this issue, but it’s now serious enough for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to want to ban it.

The FCA has suggested that ‘opt-out’ selling, where a customer has to untick a box to avoid buying something, is earning £108million a year. Almost a fifth of those falling for the scam are completely unaware of having done so.

Crisis looms

Apostrophes are in the news again

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Created on Friday, 20 February 2015 09:44

Cambridge City Council recently reversed its decision to do away with apostrophes on all street signs. Local residents had taken to adding them with marker pens, and the story became much bigger (and much more embarrassing) than expected. So apostrophes made a welcome comeback.

Clichés

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Created on Friday, 13 February 2015 16:30

Do you have any examples of clichéd speech or writing you can share with us? We'd love to see them. A few years ago we ran a poll to find the nation's least favourite clichés. We want to see what clichés infuriate most in 2015.

Management speak

Do you have any examples of management speak you can share with us? We'd love to see them. We want to create an up-to-date list of the absolute worst management speak.

We're regularly sent terrible examples of such speech or written communication, and celebrate the worst of it each year. However, the constantly replenished stream of business gibberish demands an up-to-date list (which we will update regularly) of the worst terms.

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